HIDDEN HISTORIES
Nov 26, 2020
2 minutes
“The Victorians constructed a great empire of abstinence”
lthough largely forgotten today, Victorian temperance was, at its height, one of the biggest and most influential movements in British history. While the more extreme of the many temperance societies sought a legal ban on the sale of alcohol, most temperance activists aimed merely to persuade their fellow citizens of the social ills that it caused.
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